Here are a couple of pics of the finished product.
Illinois is in the background....
I just love the view from our farm!!!!
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So the fence is in, we seeded it down in Winter Rey, harrowed it and now its back to hunting 
In September I had prepped a Cedar Tree overlooking a big red oak that was dropping pretty good and after the fence was done I decided to hang that stand with the anticipation of shooting a doe down there.
A view of my stand....
After clearing out the fence line in this section it took down the cover between us and the neighbors house as you can see in the pic.....
The deer didn't seam to mind
Friday came and with rain in the forecast I had decided to take a "Rain Check" .......
As the day wore on though it looked more and more like it would break up about 4 o'clock, just in time for a hunt,
and with the recent rain I thought that the bucks might be up on their feet freshening their scrapes......
The plan was formed and I was off for my newly set stand down front.
Now this Big Red Oak that I would be hunting over is the same Oak that I hunted out of as a first year bowhunter at age 14.
Wooden steps nailed to the tree with a 2x6 wedged in between the trunk and a limb as my seat, this spot provided me with my first shot at a deer.
16 years ago and remember it like yesterday. I never found that first deer I shot out of that Big Oak and so I was determined to make meat from this spot!
This is the Big Oak that's in front of me that I hunted out of, you can see the horizontal lines in the trunk where the wooden steps used to be.
Just like 16 years before this was a damp drizzly night and very quit out.
I was in my stand by 5:15 and trying to cool down from my walk from the house, I finally got settled in at about 5:30 and with some owls hooting back and forth across the ridges I was enjoying being out in my familiar spot.
I let out a series of grunts about 5:45 and then again at six. Soon after my last series I was answered by fairly deep grunt, and then another
I thought to myself " Self, THAT WAS A GRUNT"!!!!!!!!!!
It was out in front of me about 40 yards but with heavy underbrush, he was completely invisible to me.
I heard what I thought was foot steps in the damp leaves and then I see a tree shake about 30 yards out as he rubs on it and then here he comes!!! I have my Binos on him as he emerges from the brush at 20 yards and with his head down I make the assessment that he's 2 1/2 and that I would not shoot him.
( the trail he walks in on is in the pic of the Big Oak )
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